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Ubisoft Making Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Short Film

Studio taking its promotions up a notch after the success of Assassin's Creed shorts.

Ubisoft was just getting started with its live-action Assassin's Creed promos. According to Variety, the developer is now working with a pair of Oscar winners to create a 30-minute Ghost Recon: Future Soldier film.

Completely separate from the live action trailer that debuted today, the Ghost Recon short film will serve as a prequel to the events that take place in Future Soldier, which is scheduled for a holiday release across all platforms.

The short film will be helmed by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, the 2010 Oscar-winning directors of the animated short "Logorama." The script is being handled by one of the writers from "Children of Men," and Little Minx, a division of Ridley Scott's production company, is also on board.

Shot from the live-action Future Soldier trailer released today.

"We don't look at it just as a videogame brand," Adrian Lacey, a producer on the film, told Variety. "For us, it's very much an entertainment brand. Videogames talk to a lot more people than they did a while back. It's a much bigger audience so we're trying to bring more people to it."

According to Variety, the Future Soldier short film will be released in multiple formats in the fall.

Sharkey says: If the live-action trailer that was released today, and which was also produced by Little Minx, is any hint of what's coming, this short film will be very cool. Head over to the Ghost Recon home page if you haven't watched it yet.